While I do not think he "deserves it", I do think it was a lulsuit run by incompetent retards who talked someone into filing it in the first place and then running it into a wall at full speed, all while exploiting the lawsuit for copious amounts of youtube content.
Well, firstly, nobody had to talk Vic into filing a lawsuit. That he was going to, in one form or another, was a given. He was set to do that early on, before he hired Ty (see below).
As for the other parts, you are substantially correct, but my point here would be that you are still describing a situation where a guy, faced with a serious career and/or life ending scenario, and eager to remedy the situation as rapidly as possible, was willfully taken advantage of by people (two in particular) who predominately put their own selfish interests before his, and where he had no clear indication or warning they were going to do so. Nick was a licensed attorney at the time, seemingly sympathetic to Vic's plight, and Ty was licensed in the state in which Vic would have to sue. There were no blatant red flags for Vic to see at that time.
I think it's overly reductive to just say "Well, Vic was an idiot who should have chosen a better lawyer." I think some people just don't grasp that Nick once possessed a silver tongue, and was quite adept at misleading and manipulating people for his own gain. He just
was. That's how he achieved the "success" he did. He wouldn't have gotten anywhere if that weren't the case. It's one of the main things that makes him so despicable. Nick is a conman. A leech. He uses people.
If some want to argue Vic should have been somehow smarter, or done more due diligence, that's their prerogative, I suppose. But I still think it's pretty clear Vic got bamboozled just the same. He got stuck with a obscenely large bill, after Ty emptied out the IOLTA account, and Nick made out like a fat bandit on YouTube. Vic deserved better.
No, it was in court documents, and there is another firm that filed an appearance in court. Vic switched over the Beard because the other firm was not able to move quickly or devote as much time to the case as he wanted.
Correct.
@Svetlana also related the story in post from here on KF, back in 2019. This was in reaction to a canard being passed around by #Kickvic that Vic only went with Ty because other lawyers told him he didn't have a case (which is untrue).
A year later, she
again related the story that
@MarzGurl got a letter from the attorney Vic had hired before Beard. There was preliminary legal action before the suit-proper, it's just that the attorney that he initially hired was not willing or able to work as fast as Vic wanted.